Associate, Quant Developer, Equity Derivatives

Position Description

We are a leading and fast-growing Chinese investment bank seeking an experienced Quant Developer to join our Equity Derivatives desk.

You will work closely with traders, structurers, and quantitative teams to develop and support high-performance systems for trading, execution, pricing, and risk management.

Responsibilities

1. Design, develop, and maintain front-office applications and services supporting the Equity Derivatives business.
2. Build high-performance systems for trading, execution, market-data processing, pricing analytics, hedging, and risk management.
3. Partner closely with traders, structurers, quantitative analysts, and technology teams to understand business requirements and deliver production-ready solutions.
4. Develop scalable Python- and TypeScript-based applications, including backend services, APIs, workflow tools, and user-facing interfaces.
5. Integrate applications with trading platforms, market-data services, risk systems, and external/internal connectivity.
6. Work with middleware and messaging technologies, including FIX, Redis, WebSocket, message queues, and databases.
7. Improve the performance, reliability, observability, and resilience of existing trading and risk-management systems.
8. Implement robust software engineering practices, including automated testing, code review, CI/CD, version control, release management, and production monitoring.
9. Investigate and resolve production incidents, trading-support issues, data-quality problems, and system-performance bottlenecks.
10. Contribute to technical architecture, development standards, and the long-term evolution of the desk technology platform.

Requirements

1. Master’s degree or above in Computer Science, Mathematics, Physics, Engineering, Statistics, Financial Engineering, or a related quantitative field.
2. 4+ years of experience developing trading, execution, or risk-management systems.
3. Strong Python and TypeScript development skills; experience with Java, C++, or C# is a plus.
4. Experience building high-performance, real-time, or distributed systems.
5. Solid software engineering fundamentals: design, testing, CI/CD, Git, Linux, debugging, and performance optimization.
6. Familiarity with FIX, Redis, WebSocket, message queues, and databases.
7. Strong problem-solving and communication skills.

What We Offer

1. This is a front desk position.
2. A fast and clear career progression path.
3. Direct partnership with front-office stakeholders.
4. Opportunity to work on impactful Equity Derivatives trading and risk systems in a leading investment bank.